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Behind the Imagined Issue 2 2018 BEHIND THE IMAGINED ISSUE 02 2018 THE JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE ISSN 2207-8622 Published by the National Centre for Australian Children’s Literature Inc Editor: Jane Carstens © National Centre for Australian Children’s Literature Inc © Copyright in each article is vested in the author All enquiries should be addressed to: The National Centre for Australian Children’s Literature Inc The Library University of Canberra ACT 2601 AUSTRALIA You may also contact us by email at [email protected] The Centre actively seeks donations under the Cultural Gifts Program. The Centre also accepts monetary donations for which donors may receive a taxation benefit. See back jacket cover for details. For more information, please contact Belle Alderman on (02) 6201 2062 or by email at [email protected]. Behind the imagined: The Journal of the National Centre for Australian Children’s Literature is indexed in APAIS (Australian Public Affairs Information Service), ALISA (Australian Library and Information Science Abstracts) and in Children’s Literature Abstracts (Austin TX 78757). 1 Table of Contents WELCOME FROM THE EDITOR .................................................................................................. 3 GIVING OF GUM BLOSSOM WATERCOLOUR .......................................................................... 4 MAMIE – A CELEBRATION OF MAY’S LIFE FOR MODERN CHILDREN ................................... 9 “SO THERE YOU ARE, YOU SEE”: REMEMBERING DORIS CHADWICK ................................. 13 THE WORLD OF SELF-PUBLISHING .......................................................................................... 22 2 Welcome from the Editor Welcome to the second edition of Behind the Imagined. This edition is a celebration of the skill and dedication of women in literature, and of people’s generosity (you will understand why when you have read the articles). May Gibbs is the subject of the first two articles by Jane Brummitt and Tania McCartney respectively, and if you think you know a lot about May and her work, then read on. There are gems found in every paragraph of these articles. For Belle Alderman, Jane Brummitt and Tania McCartney with May Gibb’s watercolour created as a example, did you know preliminary piece for her first published work in Australia, Gum Blossom Babies (1916). This artwork was donated to the NCACL by Jane last year. the wonderful Ms Gibbs wasn’t a good driver because she was always on the lookout for flowers to sketch? You will also find out what a generous giving person May was. Doris Chadwick, editor of The School Magazine for 37 years, is also remembered and celebrated by her great-niece Diana Brown. While we often know a lot about a person’s professional life, their back-story brings them to life. Thanks to Diana, we not only know more about Doris, but the information is now recorded for prosperity (don't you just love archives!). Finally, Nicole Godwin draws the curtains back a little bit more about the world of self- publishing, including the offer of a free eBook to our readers about bringing one of her books to life (until the end of May). I know you will enjoy these articles. They are more threads in the literary world that, when woven together, create the rich fabric of Australian children’s literature. Jane Carstens Editor 3 Giving of Gum Blossom Watercolour By Jane Brummitt While a young friend told me about a 1915 painting by May Gibbs MBE which he had noticed in an antique shop, he showed me a photograph of it on his phone. When I saw the original I recognised that it was a May Gibbs work - in progress for her Christmas 1916 book, Gum Blossom Babies. Her name is printed in the bottom left hand corner, but not in that characteristic circle she gave her finished works – once she had stopped using her early and demeaning nom de plume ‘Blob’ for fashion advertisements and caricatures of politicians. Jane Brummitt with the May Gibbs’ watercolour she donated to our Centre last year Gumnut Babies and Gum Blossom Babies, both published in December 1916, were May’s first Australian books. This painting is just visibly dated 1915 and is a delight to compare with the finished work of 1916. 4 In an illustrated article headed ‘Miss May Gibbs: her creative work; Mother of Gum Nut Babies’, an un-named journalist in Sydney’s Sunday Sun of 5 September, 1915, wrote at about the time May created this watercolour: Miss May Gibbs…specialises in painting Australian wildflowers, and has invested certain of the blossoms with such fantastic personalities that many people have come to look on them as funny little human friends and follow the various vicissitudes of their lives with much interest. Having trained in London and visited Paris, May by 1915 was a highly skilled artist. Born in England she had come to South Australia with her artistic parents at the age of four and moved to what she described as the ‘glorious, delightful free bush’ of Harvey, Western Australia, at the age of eight – where ‘indulgent parents allowed unrestrained freedom’ – her words. She was inspired by Harvey and loved creating imaginative stories about its bush for her young cousins when she visited them there. Years later she recalled these creations when it was reported that: she wants the children of Australia to know of all the quaint, delightful wonderful things that throng the bush of their native land….which is peopled with characters she thinks more fascinating than any that ever lived in the pages of Grimm or Hans Andersen. Until she wrote her books, Australian children read only books with English settings. In London she attempted to publish a children’s book, she called Mimie and Wag, set in Australia and based on her childhood there. The unfamiliar landscape of Mimie’s adventures on the back of a kangaroo and accompanied by her dog, led only to a rejection slip. Undaunted, May changed the site of the adventures of Mimie and Wag to the chimney pots of London. The result was success and her book About Us was published in 1911. Soon she received commissions for so much work from the English publisher George Harrap that her health reached breaking point. In 1913 she returned home, to her family in Perth, accompanied by a fellow suffragist English friend, Rene Heames. Encouraged by Rene and Sydney friend, Win Preston, who also recognised May’s prodigious talent, May moved to Sydney to explore the greater publishing opportunities there. She rented a studio at 4 George Street, in the city, travelling there by ferry from a boarding house called ‘Derry’, in Phillips Street, Neutral Bay. May rejoiced in Sydney’s bushland and on 4 December 1913 she registered her first gumnut baby image for copyright. How astute and business-like to do that! Almost immediately her Gumnut Babies made their first appearance in the banner heading of a serialised newspaper story by Ethel 5 Turner – The Magic Button. I have read it right through and there is no mention of gumnut babies in Ethel Turner’s plot! Gumnut Babies and her other designs became instantly popular among magazine covers for The Sydney Mail and she was commissioned to create 25. The Lone Hand, a magazine which deliberately encouraged the artistic work of women, also featured May’s gumnut babies on a cover. As well as being recognised as a prize-winning botanical artist who had exhibited at the Paris Exhibition, May was also a fine portrait painter and water-colourist. She regarded her very popular and imaginative gumnut works as pot boilers. These so called pot boilers made her work very well known and much loved, particularly after World War I broke out. They included nostalgic postcards from gumnut land, dispatched with the Red Cross parcels sent to diggers in the trenches. As well as the Gumnut Corps going to war and ‘making things hum by gum’, there were postcards of kookaburra aunts and gumnut babies knitting for victory and a kangaroo with her joey keeping ‘the billy boiling, dear, till you come marching home’. May said that because her cards went sent to bring cheer to the soldiers, no work gave her greater pleasure. During this time, she was also commissioned to illustrate books by Australian authors. However in 1915 she told a Sunday Sun journalist that to realise her dream of a book about the Australian bush she had realised that she must both illustrate and write the book herself. First and foremost an artist, she created her pictures and wrote stories around them. During 1915 May worked extremely hard at creating ideas for Gumnut Babies and Gum Blossom Babies, inspired by Corymbia calophylla, often referred to as the May Gibbs gum tree, with its urn shaped gumnuts. The painting dates from that period but the artwork is not as refined as in the two finished books, the original work for which you can see in the Mitchell Library. There I marvelled at her skill with pen and ink and her delicate work as a watercolour artist using a myriad of shades to depict a cicada making music for a crowd of gumnut babies. When Angus and Robertson commissioned May’s first two Australian books, Gumnut Babies and Gum Blossom Babies, on January 11, 1916, she was again so exhausted by her work that she headed back to recuperate at her parents’ home, The Dune, in South Perth. After a couple of months there she returned to Sydney revitalised. In October 1916 The Bulletin announced that Angus and Robertson would be bringing out two gumnut babies booklets and ‘countless Christmas calendars’ before Christmas. Accompanying The Bulletin article was a 6 vibrant photograph of May decked out in gumnut memorabilia she had created – and making it quite clear, thanks to The Bulletin, that she preferred her work to idle chatter.
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